Fast food chain McDonalds will be offering free wireless
Internet access across its 1,200-strong restaurants in the UK, thus making it
the countrys biggest provider of free wireless broadband access, Reuters has
reported. The move is indicative of the increasing competition in the UKs
broadband market, dominated by contract or pay-as-you-go services, where a
regular hotspot user usually has to pay around 5 ($10.18) for an hour log-on.
There are around 11,477 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and major
service providers include The Cloud, BT, and Deutsche Telecoms T-Mobile. And
McDonalds service will account for about 10% of the total Wi-Fi hotspots.